Hello Matthias, I like this picture. You caught the perfect time for
all beautiful fireworks!!

What lens did you use and how many shots have you done for this picture?

Martin

Matthias Taugwalder

... Acutally it s a bit more complicated than that... It was shot with a D200 and 10.5mm lens... Stitched in PTgui. The secret is the following, the panorama

Message 4 of 5
, Jan 3, 2007

> Hello Matthias, I like this picture. You caught the perfect time for
> all beautiful fireworks!!
>
> What lens did you use and how many shots have you done for this picture?

Acutally it's a bit more complicated than that... It was shot with a D200
and 10.5mm lens... Stitched in PTgui.

The "secret" is the following, the panorama consists of two different
panoramas: One for the people at about 1/25s shutter speed, the other one
for the fireworks was at 2-4s exposure time. For the fireworks I shot
continous shots and blended these different layers (about 30-40 different
images) afterwards to one seamless image. To get the exact the same
positioning (and leveling) of the shots I loaded both equirectangular images
into PTgui set the control points by hand, optimized and re-rendered one of
the panoramas. Finally I set manually a layer mask to combine the images
(fireworks above the horizon, people below).